Mt. Ebbot (2099)

One day, an orphan child went missing. Her name was Frisk.

Nobody actually noticed the disappearance of Frisk, but if they did, they would have never realized it was the beginning of the end.

It started with an earthquake mere hours after Frisk's disappearance. It wasn't a big one, but it did have unknown consequences. Namely, the mountain suffered a rock-slide and a scientist accidentally knocked a few vials of differing substances into a rat's cage.

A few days afterwards, the scientist found the rat. It had drastically boosted strength, stamina, and speed.

Testing began, and soon enough it had moved to humans

People could lift boulders around 1 ton, run for hours at thirty mph, and only at the cost of eating twice as much.

And then reports of zombies and skeletons roaming surfaced. And soon entire towns were being slaughtered, no matter what the military tried to do.

The people panicked.

As many nations as possible built as many factories as possible to create the 'superhuman' formula to combat this new threat. Those that could not build the factories fled to the ones that could and built walls to pay for their safety.

With the sudden increase in supply, and a deadly demand, all but a couple million in the remaining 3 billion were now super human.

However, health laws were disregarded in the panic to build the factories, and a thick layer of smog was created around the whole planet. The sun was prevented from shining, and everything was permanently overcast. Food started to run out. The formula sped up the metabolism, causing everyone who took it to need to eat more. With so many people in one place, unable to leave because they would get killed, someone would have to go out to the farms. It started with Death Row, then general prisoners, then anyone who had not taken the formula. They didn't last long.

The food was still running out, so anyone who was not protecting the cities was sent out to the farms. They actually lived for longer, but because it took such a long time to get the food back, some of the cities were dying, or took drastic measures. The survivors ran to other cities, but not everyone who fled came with good intentions. People were dying left and right and something had to be done. They dismantled all factories, no matter what they were making, to make room for farms. Empty buildings? Gone. Parks? Gone. Museums? If no one was using it for shelter, it was gone too. If it wasn't for use as shelter, it was torn down and made into a farm.

Because farming was the only job now, many people now had nothing to do. They were just eating food others needed. They were made useful, as scavengers sent out to gather anything that was left from the abandoned farms. not many came back. Even more were killed by the more radical people to use as fertilizer.

Then, one of the abandoned factories blew up. New creatures started to appear. What plants remained mutated into walking bombs set to use whatever they could kill as a food source for spores. They were called creepers for convenience. The spiders, the most common insect still around, grew to over six feet wide, and two feet tall.

Now, even the plants and bugs were trying to kill the humans. One thing that wasn't was old age. They could live up to 500 years, if nothing killed them first.

Two of the new 500 year generations later, someone spotted the skeletons and zombies burning in the sun. The Creepers stuck their roots back into the soil and the spiders became basically blind in the day. The smog had finally cleared enough for the sun to get through.

It didn't just dissipate though, it had created acid rain. New caves were everywhere and the remains of old humanity had reseeded the resources in the ground. What animals that were left roamed freely and the non mutated plants retook the land.

The world had changed and the humans with it, but not for the better.

It was found that if children were born with square eyes, they inherited the formula. Why? No one knew and they really didn't care to find out. The opposite was also true, and if they had round eyes, they were normal humans. Without the factories, there was no more formula. Round eyed children were labeled useless, and were killed. They weren't the only ones dying though, the crippled were too.

Needless to say, if you couldn't work to the level of everyone else, you were killed because you were useless.

When the world was no longer trying to kill them 24/7, the cities became much less crowded as the humans left to repopulate the world. But without the laws the cities provided, the thought process of 'kill the useless' was taken to its conclusion. If you were more useful to someone dead, you were killed. If you were more useful to someone alive, you were kept alive. The word 'friend' now meant you were 'useful and were going to be kept from dying if you were still useful'. The moment you lost your usefulness, you were dead. Marriage no longer had any love in it, if two people worked better together, they made babies.

A total of two thousand years after the earthquake that started it all, a child was born. Two hundred years later, our story starts.